Dragon (Paperback)

DRAGON - Second Edition

Completely rewritten, darker, and more terrifying, this is DRAGON as it was always meant to be.

Four teenagers slip through a fence surrounding an abandoned industrial complex for a night of drinking, music, and harmless trespassing. By morning, only one of them comes back out.

She is injured, terrified, and telling a story no one should believe. Something enormous moved through the fog. Something took her friends. And afterward, from somewhere beneath the ground, it called her name in the voice of someone who was already dead.

Something has been living there for generations.

It moves through tunnels, pipes, rails, and foundations, turning the abandoned industrial site into a hunting ground. It can draw people toward places they know they should fear. It learns the sounds of its victims, their voices, even their names, and each time it uses them, the imitation becomes a little more convincing.

Now the search perimeter is failing, the creature is hunting again, and Fen is beginning to realize that understanding what lives beneath the ruins may not be enough to stop it. If he wants to end what began there generations ago, he may have to enter the one place no sane person would willingly go.

Down into the dark where it lives.

DRAGON: Second Edition is a completely rewritten version of R.D. Parrish's original novel, rebuilt from the ground up with stronger characters, darker suspense, relentless tension, and creature horror lurking just beneath your feet.

Some monsters chase you.

This one waits for you to listen.

R.D. Parrish is an American author whose work blends atmospheric horror, Southern Gothic melancholy, and deeply human storytelling. A Marine Corps veteran and longtime resident of the American South, Parrish draws inspiration from the quiet places-flooded fields, forgotten towns, and the heavy, humid stillness where memory clings to the earth.

His debut novel, Hollow Ground, is an intimate rural-horror tale set in the fictional Mississippi Delta community of Gethsemane Parish, where relentless rain awakens an ancient, listening intelligence beneath the soil. Parrish is known for crafting horror that is slow-burning, emotional, and rooted in character-stories where fear emerges not from monsters, but from misunderstanding, grief, and the fragile ways humans try to connect.

Parrish writes with a focus on atmosphere, psychological depth, and the strange beauty of the natural world. When he isn't writing, he enjoys time with his family, exploring small-town history, and working on the next haunting story set in the world just beneath our feet.

He lives in the United States with his wife, De.